linker3000

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by linker3000 14d ago
I'm just about getting by with DDG and a curated 'AI slop' list subscription in uBlock origin. The state of search has been dire for quite some time. - in 2026.
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by linker3000 25d ago
Yay, wirewrap... https://codeberg.org/linker3000/Z80-Board
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by linker3000 1mo ago
I find it apparent when I very occasionally take a break from making my own stuff from scratch and get a takeout.
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Fastest way to run ghidrasql: point an AI coding agent at the installer prompt(github.com)
2 points by linker3000 1mo ago|0 comments
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by linker3000 2mo ago
One thing it taught me was that sometimes the corrections would be in next month's edition, so I had that long to figure out for myself why the program didn't work as stated.
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by linker3000 2mo ago
The main qualification of one of the best electronics engineers I knew (UK) was Bachelor of Music.
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by linker3000 2mo ago
So if, say, you were completely irradiated - every atom of your being - and fully repaired, would you still be 'you'? /Is that a transporter energizing I hear?
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by linker3000 2mo ago
Is this the evolution of something that used to run moderately well on a mid-range Raspberry pi? Don Priestley (Mazogs), stares down with a withering look.
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An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement(blog.documentfoundation.org)
8 points by linker3000 3mo ago|0 comments
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by linker3000 4mo ago
A few weeks ago I needed a computer to be a Debian server for some at-home simple Web dev / learning stuff. I bought an HP Prodesk 400 G3 SFF PC with i5-6500, 8GB RAM and a 256GB off a popular auction site for £44. It'll do. I mig
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by linker3000 5mo ago
> leads to real outages. Um, no. I daresay you could find the odd example, as for any grid in a stressed situation, but it's not like we turn to each other every week in the dark and say "Oh, it must be half time at the Manches
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by linker3000 5mo ago
I would just like to bring my Bluetooth headset into teams reliably.
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by linker3000 6mo ago
I used to support DTP, and graphics for the systems house at which I worked. I travelled round the UK installing PageMaker and A4 paper-white CRT displays - boy were they heavy! My endearing memory is calling the company in Edinburgh for te
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by linker3000 7mo ago
The Motorola phones are generally good performers and value for money. My only gripe is that they cannot have their batteries replaced easily - even by phone repair shops. I understand that this is because you have to disassemble / un-
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by linker3000 8mo ago
I learned how to do lacing during an electronics engineering apprenticeship in the 1980s. After the fact, when I moved more in to systems and networking, I found that flat, nylon, waxed lacing cord, with a small nut tied to the end, was lig
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by linker3000 8mo ago
LinkedIn - it takes you to the allow/deny page but doesn't automate things. It used to be that the LinkedIn login would get stuck in a cycle around this, but now it just dumps you on to the consent page.
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by linker3000 8mo ago
I worked in IT support and engineering for a UK Olivetti dealer / distributor in the 1980s/90s. As such I had access to all sorts of Olivetti kit in various states of functionality. At one time, my home PC was an Olivetti M280 cas
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by linker3000 8mo ago
I tried this with Node-RED for a Meshtastic project (MeshBop), but experienced occasional timeouts even when only making a handful of calls per hour. In the end I moved to Met Norway's API for UK/EU weather.
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New York's incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party(theregister.com)
16 points by linker3000 9mo ago|2 comments
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by linker3000 10mo ago
I ran with Centreon for a while because you got Nagios + integrated dashboarding out of the box and a Community option. I'm out of that game now though so don't have the challenge. https://www.centreon.com/
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by linker3000 1y ago
I don't really keep up with the hifi market and seeing the headline was an eye opener. I used to work in a building next to a B&W place where they either made speakers or at least the drive units. The day was punctuated regularly b
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by linker3000 1y ago
Will the products please stop complaining.
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by linker3000 1y ago
My calculator says that's 4.5 days at warp 9.
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by linker3000 1y ago
Here's one possibility. With AI we need fewer programmers, and the juniors will possibly be the first to go, but they might me retrained for other careers (which might eventually get cancelled too because of AI), or out of work. The so
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by linker3000 1y ago
> As far as I remember Digg didn’t have followers or any major original content or influencers. Yep, some personalities on Digg had their groupies and if they posted something, all their followers would vote it up the listing, in effect
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by linker3000 1y ago
Might be OK if you had to take a driving proficiency test and only had the extra HP enabled if you proved you can handle it.
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by linker3000 1y ago
And then your insurance is voided due to an unauthorized engine modification.. Official dealers won't service it or will keep resetting it...
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by linker3000 1y ago
Well, I still own the ancestor - a BBC B. As a schoolboy I was one of a handful who were in the computer club. We had a CBM (PET) 3016, a few Acorn System Ones and a UK101 that was built by our physics teacher. One day this big grey prototy
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by linker3000 1y ago
At least one of my local, out of town, supermarkets doesn't have a warehouse any more. It's all Just in Time, with a residual amount above the main shelves. If you can't find what you want, they don't have it 'out b
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by linker3000 1y ago
That's how I do it. I have a smart plug on the washer dryer and the power consumption gets sent via MQTT to Node-RED where some simple monitoring and trigger conditions update a dashboard and send an email to myself when the washing ma

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